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Are you passionate about distributed systems, massive scalability, and durability? Are you interested in solving the challenges of Cloud-scale Storage? If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is the perfect fit for you. Azure Storage is a foundational service in the Azure Cloud which powers six key storage services: Blob Storage, Table Storage (NoSQL Key-Value store), Queue Storage, Data Lake Storage, File Storage, and Disk Storage. These services host data from some of the largest companies in the world and support all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses including Xbox, Office365, and Bing while scaling to store many exabytes of customer data. The Microsoft Azure Storage team is seeking a Principal Group Software engineering manager - Azure Storage to lead a team of talented engineers focused on improving service quality, chaos engineering, resiliency, and validation infrastructure. We are looking for a talented principal software engineering manager who is customer-obsessed and passionate about creating high-quality end-to-end experiences that delight customers. You will have an opportunity to make high impact changes daily as you work on a hyper-scale storage system that may indirectly or directly be used daily by your friends and family.
Job Responsibility:
Oversees partnership with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements within and across teams for multiple solutions or product lines
Oversees teams and provides technical leadership for identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
Oversees teams to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders across products
Leads the resolution of complex site incidents and oversees for Designated Responsible Individuals (DRI) and directs the work of other engineers across product lines
Keeps informed of and communicates new standards to ensure that the product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience
4 years people management experience minimum
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
6+ years people management experience
6+ years of experience of Quality Assurance (QA) life cycle, methodologies, and best practices
Ability to plan, schedule and deliver quality software